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"Over the last few years a rising tide of new Korean artists have staked a place in the global music conversation. Groups like Jambinai, Black String and Park Jiha's earlier duo [su:m] have created exciting soundworlds that deftly combine the instrumentation and complex expression of Korean traditional music with an array of contemporary sounds such as post-rock, doom metal, downtempo jazz, and classical minimalism. While Park Jiha's most recent musical endeavor, her debut solo album Communion, is...

"Wing–Chester is the chaotic meeting between the critical beats and mad rhythms of Teun (who improvised for two hours in a studio) and the avant-garde melodies and heavy guitars of Pierre ( who built up all the rest in a few days at home)...

"P2O5, founded in Wendelstein near Nuremberg in 1970, released their only LP in 1978 on the Brutkasten label which is today in high demand. There is to be heard hard rock with progressive elements and English lyrics. The Brutkasten studio was only...

This is a professionally packaged, self-released CDR. It features bassist Paul Kollar (from St. Elmo's Fire), guitarist Paul Barton and drummer Phil Wylie, all tearing it up live at a Coffeehouse in Calyton, NC! This is 42' of improvisatinally oriented...

The fifth album by this Swedish post-Landberk/post-rock/post-progressive group features four new works and older works which are 'revisited' here (meaning that they are new recordings of old pieces or remixes. Moody, ethereal, modern music.

A numbered, limited edition of 1,000 copies from 1993, this is a crunchy progressive/fusion band based around the guitaring of leader Michael Pabst. There is usually guitar, bass, drums and usually keyboards and sometimes brass on the tracks. It was...

"Else Marie Pade, born in 1924 in Denmark, is a precious golden gem in the world of contemporary electro-acoustic music. She is a true pioneer of electronic music and musique concrète. Pade is Denmark's first lady of electronic music and her piece "Syv Cirkler (Seven Circles)" became the first electronic piece performed on Danish radio. Pade's fascination with sound began in early childhood. Isolated in her bed for long periods due to illness, she began listening and intensively observing the sounds...

"For all the scientific rigour to Kirkegaard's research into the sonic possibilities of various materials, his work reveals an underlying fascination for the mysteries and myths embedded in them. His work channels an access to an inner world."-Anne Hilde

Remastered and presented in a mini-lp sleeve, this reissues a fairly in-demand album which has been unavailable on CD for at least 5 years now. The first solo album by one of the pillars of the original PFM. "Those who expect that Mauro Pagani's solo...

This 1986 release was the very first by this Japanese progressive rock outfit.
Like so much of the 80s and 90s Japanese progressive scene, this has long been unavailable.
Now it's available again at a reasonable price, especially for a Japanese release, as a special blu-spec CD release!
" Pageant's debut is one of the best Symphonic Prog albums of the 80's.. and possibly my favorite after Asia Minor's 'Between Flesh and Divine'. The music has a mystical fairy tale atmosphere: full of bright...

"To the uninitiated, extended techniques (playing an instrument in a way not originally intended), like plucking a piano's strings or bowing a violin behind its bridge'may seem gimmicky or just plain ridiculous. However, certain extended techniques...

Frank is best known for his work with his band Only A Mother, but he's been a solo artist for much longer than Only A Mother were around. "It may be hard to believe, but The Back of Beyond is Frank Pahl's first solo album since 1998! In the meantime he...

"The death of Shaking Ray Levi keyboardist Dennis Palmer prompted Frank Pahl to put the finishing touch on two projects. The first one is this studio duo CD with Palmer, ten years in the works. Fourteen instrumental pieces that are lovingly off-kilter...

Very fine collaboration between Frank Pahl and Shaking Ray Levi (Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner). The mirror image of Pahl-Mer, this one contains improvisations recorded in April 2012. Titles all refer to the werewolf, yet the music is much more...

Paik are wicked conjurers of a seriously delirious thunder, unleashing a maelstrom of sound that is as lilting as it is crushing. A power trio of guitar/bass/drums, the band first streaked across the Michigan space-gaze scene in 1997, seeking to chart ...

"If you've heard about this band at all, you've probably heard that their sound incorporates various traditional Japanese instruments. This is true, but it's not immediately audible at first; instead of using them as solo instruments they tend to act...

A powerful and breathtaking meeting of masters. With the tight rhythm section of Laswell and Hamid Drake, who have a long history working together in a variety of bands and contexts, and the empathetic insanity of Patton and Zorn, this set was as much ...

'An historical reissue released in cooperation with Earache Records. Out of print for years -- with most of the material being released domestically for the first time. PainKiller was Bill Laswell (bass, samples), Mick Harris (drums, samples, vocals) &...

Bringing together John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Mick Harris, three of the most voracious and energetic musical minds in new music, PainKiller was one of the most intense live bands ever. Here they are captured at their absolute peak. Culminating their le...

"Afonso Pais isn’t simply a promising young guitarist of the Portuguese jazz scene; he is above all an outstanding composer and thorough musician. Nevertheless he is part of the young crop that has turned up in the last 10 to 15 years, in this country..

Ron Anderson and PAK have been at it for some time and it's great to see their hard work rewarded with a release with Tzadik, which willc certainly bring them some well-deserved attention! A bit crazed and more than a bit great! Highly recommended!...

Bassist/composer/band leader Ron Anderson has been leading an ever-changing ensemble known as PAK for at least a decade. He's also been collaborating with drummer Tatsuya Yoshida in various line-ups for at least a decade as well...

Second and final album by this UK progressive band which was released on Bronze in 1972 and never before released on CD. I never heard this at the time, but I remember seeing it, because who could forget that great Roger Dean cover! This has liner...

"Released in the Spring of 1971, "Paladin" was the debut album from this creative band. Formed the previous year by Keith Webb and Pete Solley (both ex-members of Terry Reid's band), Paladin encompassed all that was experimental in early 70's rock...

"Who says experimental musicians can't play pop? Norway's Stian Westerhus is best known as one of Northern Europe's most fascinating abstract guitar stylists. His album Didymoi Dreams with vocalist Sidsel Endresen was a fascinating pairing of extreme....

As usual, my pal Ken totally nails the essentials: "The record label hyped this new Norwegian instrumental trio as sounding like a mash up of Pink Floyd and post-rock. Guess what? They sound like a mash up of Pink Floyd and post-rock. The main mover...

"...this ace arranger is dead serious about his song-renovations, striving for exceptional music that contains levels of technical resourcefulness and emotional exposition associated with premium jazz." – DownBeat

The Ed Palermo Big Band combines two unlikely American masters with The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren, a dizzying and ingenious reinvention of music by Todd Rundgren & Frank Zappa, two much-loved but drastically different American rock composers...

Ed and his amazing 16 piece band (+ guests) return with his third album of his distinctive, big-band interpretations of the great 20th century composer, Frank Zappa. This body of work has won them huge acclaim from both new and old fans of the music...

"Palermo developed these charts during years of live shows with these musicians, and their mastery of the material shows in the performances, which turn on a dime yet feel fierce with spontaneous invention....

Over the past two decades Ed Palermo has earned an avid international following with his brilliantly executed, reverently irreverent arrangements of Frank Zappa’s tempestuous and wildly inventive music. On previous albums the New Jersey saxophonist, composer and arranger infused the world of Zappalogy with his own brand of incisive wit & bracing improvisation. He doesn’t neglect Zappa on his 4th Cuneiform dispatch One Child Left Behind...

"In arranging Zappa's tunes for big band, Ed Palermo has thrown new light on his legacy while retaining the composer's original melodic and harmonic designs. The arrangements also leave plenty of room for the band's gifted soloists..."...

Crazy times call for outrageous music, and few jazz ensembles are better prepared to meet the surreality of this reality-TV-era than the antic and epically creative Ed Palermo Big Band. The New Jersey saxophonist, composer and arranger is best known for his celebrated performances interpreting the ingenious compositions of Frank Zappa, an extensive body of work documented on previous Cuneiform albums.
But his fifth project for the label...

"A Sweet Quasimodo... is stunning music for two pianos played simultaneously in a tremolo style that Charlemagne Palestine calls 'strumming,' a technique that has defined his piano music since the late '60s. It spins out its sonic tapestry in surges...

"Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composer's relevant historical recordings. In 1973...

"From Etudes to Cataclysms is one of Charlemagne's most important works. An impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on a unique instrument -- a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet."

"This CD of previously-unavailable recordings not only presents you Charlemagne Palestine activities in 1974, collaborating with some of most important experimental artists and composers from either the New York loft scene and Cal Arts, but also...

A classic of early American minimalism; this belongs in any collection of people who enjoy that style.

"One of the earliest, almost forgotten pioneers of minimalism, along with La Monte Young & Terry Riley, This reissues a very rare Shandar lp of very personalized piano music. "Unchanging as his music appears to be from the outside, it is constantly renewing it's structure as a natural process."

"...really there are no words that can describe how important this CD could become to you....

"Youuu + Mee = Weee is the first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine and Rhys Chatham. And it's precious. Following the musical meetings with Z'ev (Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear, and with Tony Conrad, these new Sub...

This is the debut album by a instrumental quartet from Brazil who use the unusual instrumentation of Hang (a smaller, modern version of steel drum but played with hands instead of sticks), drumkit, cello and acoustic piano.

The sound is very world-music vibe oriented, such as Oregon, etc, along with chamber/chamber-rock sounds, like Julverne, etc.

It's very nice and the Hang gives it its own sound; watch the video and see...

''What we have here is a trio (guitari, mandolin & cello) of inspired musicians, able to forge a dazzling acoustic sound which strikes the right balance between interpretative rigour and the typical passion of the sounds of Southern Italy.'' [Felmay/Ne...

Italitan guitarist Antonello Paliotti continues to forge ahead on the highly original path taken by previous offering Tarantella Storta and Serenata Luntana accompanied by the Mandolin Orchestra. Together with traditional standards this album features ...

''A volte ritornano.... some of the most significant rebel songs of the first hundred years of Italian history: from the anti-war songs to the working chants, from the migration ballads to the protest anthems. Non a mere nostalgia revival but instead a...

Clive Palmer is a founding member of The Incredible String Band, a virtuoso banjo player and distinguished folk musician who recorded several classic albums with COB and The Famous Jug Band. At long last, British folk's great lost album" is finally ava...